Early Bird (Erkenci Kus)(Part 3)

40. Mevkhibe the bull

Can puffs out a breath walking into his office, heading for his chair.

"Can," Emre says behind him, walking from his door to follow Can.

"I'm listening," Can says absently.

"Why did you say all of that?"

"What can I do? For now it has to be like this." Can leans against the back of his chair. "At least until things calm down." Emre looks over his shoulder. "Until Mrs Mevkhibe calms down and Sanem can tell her. It's not so bad," he says with an uncaring shrug, chaffing at the idea of lying much longer.

Emre eyes him with a raised brow and he caves.

"Okay, I don't like it one bit," he admits, "you know I don't like secrets, but I understand where Sanem's coming from. There's nothing we can do, so we'll keep it to ourselves."

"Got it," Emre sighs and nods.

"You know, your position isn't much different from mine, just remember that."

"True, but we're still trying to get to know each other, we're not dating."

"Either way," Can looks at the door, "we have to be careful. We don't want the girls to have more problems."

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"You can be a bit more creative, I think," Sanem tilts her head and looks down at Haldu's work. "Just a little."

"Don't worry Sanem, I'll fix it."

She nods and smiles, looking up to turn away. Her smile drops immediately seeing her mother storming in from the lobby and she jumps off the desk edge.

Oh, oh, oh...no! "Mom," she breathes and spots JJ coming from the coffeebar with Can's tea. "JJ," she hisses.

"Yes?" he stops and turns to her. "Gah," he gasps at her terrified expression.

"JJ - "

"Gah!"

"Get down," she whispers and ducks. He follows her, bending down as well.

"What's happening? Are you going to tell me another secret?" Sanem points towards the bridge. "I don't want to know, I like simplicity in my life. Why are we whispering down - Oh, you want Mr Can to fire me? Is that it?"

"JJ, if you stop talking I can tell you that my mother is here," she urges. "My mother is here."

"Your mom? Why is she here? What does she want? Ooh, did she bring food?" He starts to rise.

"She has a newspaper in her hands JJ, she must have seen the article."

He comes back down. "Gah," he gasps again and Sanem peeks over with a frown.

"She's here to kill me, I know it. She's going to do it in front of everyone."

"What can we do? She's already in."

Sanem turns back to him and looks at the cup in his hand. "JJ - "

"Yes?"

"Distract her," Sanem whispers and takes the cup.

He takes a deep breath. "Alright."

"I'm going to crawl through."

"Can I crawl too? She's a scary woman."

"Just distract her. I need to talk to Mr Can." He looks worried. "Yes, crawl," she huffs and shakes her head, starting to move on her hands and knees with one hand holding the cup. Halfway she gets up when people start looking at her weirdly and hurries through to Can's office.